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Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms - Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics (Paperback)
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Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms - Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics (Paperback)
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This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of
contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle
East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be
described as "actually-existing colonialisms." These writers
include prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers
such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Louise Erdrich, Aurora Levins Morales,
Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, Raymonda Tawil, Michelle
Cliff, and Rigoberta Menchu. Negotiating the contradictions among
gender, nation, and globalization, postcolonial women writers
construct extimate subjectivities that mark their excessive
locations in the social field through the dialectical relation
between the intimate and the external, the intimately or internally
external, articulating these contradictions within the larger
history and narratives of anti-colonial internationalist struggle
for liberation and emancipation. Grounded in a commitment to the
future of the postcolonial nation and the project of decolonization
and liberation within the ever-encroaching, neocolonial global
capitalist system, postcolonial women's narratives of displacing
offer not only an alternative mode of ideological critique of
scripted and commonly-inherited discourses of identity, home,
culture that obfuscate the fundamental social antagonism, but also
ways of changing them through practices of radical politics. The
book thus charts four intersecting, dialogic strategies, by which
postcolonial women writers produce extimate subjectivities: travel,
unhomeliness, multiple and shifting subject positions, and
transnational alliances. First, specific strategies of travel,
voluntary and involuntary, within glocal networks of dispossession,
displacement, and labor migration that foreground their extimate
locations as internally external. Second, tactics of unhomeliness
that uncover traces of the foreign, and elsewhere, in the edifice
of the familiar that serve as the basis for interrogating dominant
discourses of belonging. Third, techniques of multiple and shifting
subject positions that recognize the excessive location of the
extimate subject, in order to unravel not only the contingency of
the subject's ontic properties, but also her locations in the
interplay of oppression and privilege. And fourth, strategies for
building political solidarity with transnational and transethnic
communities of struggle that are grounded in the concrete
Universality of the excluded communities. This book bears witness
to the radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist
writing, and promises a way out of the impasse of the current
culturalization of politics in the humanities that has resulted
from the uncritical celebration of hybridity and the concomitant
emphasis on diaspora, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism in
dominant discourses of postcolonial, ethnic, and transnational
studies.
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